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reinventing cable (i.redd.it)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

At least 20% of my orders end up being fucked up anyway. It's either counterfeit products an entirely wrong product with the UPC of what I ordered taped onto the box.

I ordered a Spyder Color calibrator last year (about 200 bucks), and got an iPhone 4 screen protector with the barcide of a Spyder printed on the box.

I ordered a laptop and it arrived gutted.

Amazon died for me when they changed from a retailer to a drop-shipper.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Similar experiences. I dropped Amazon at renewal in January after the ad announcement. The items I ordered went from two days to four days to several weeks to never existing and the products were more and more "fell off a truck" crappy knockoffs - the same reason I stopped using eBay in the 2000s.

Bonus, like you, I find myself making next to no impulse purchases anymore since I can't just fire up Amazon on a whim.